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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]I sent a copy of an old map to PeterH, showing The Field. Here are his comments: "The 'Fountain' is indeed on the map. The first large building on the right is the village Institute and ambulance station. Directly opposite this is a circular structure, helpfully labelled 'Fn', which presumably explains its name. Judging by the number of shafts and pumping stations around, I think it's a fair bet that it was part of a system for draining the shafts. One could speculate that it acted as an initial reservoir which then fed Hogg's Pond and thence to the main Shipley Reservoir. I think I remember a flume which passed under the road between the colliery railway and the reservoir and discharged huge quantities of water at high speed into the latter." [/quote]
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the Fountain Shipley
replied on: 1/7/2006 12:29:43 AM

I sent a copy of an old map to PeterH, showing The Field. Here are his comments:

"The 'Fountain' is indeed on the map. The first large building on the right is the village Institute and ambulance station. Directly opposite this is a circular structure, helpfully labelled 'Fn', which presumably explains its name.

Judging by the number of shafts and pumping stations around, I think it's a fair bet that it was part of a system for draining the shafts. One could speculate that it acted as an initial reservoir which then fed Hogg's Pond and thence to the main Shipley Reservoir.

I think I remember a flume which passed under the road between the colliery railway and the reservoir and discharged huge quantities of water at high speed into the latter."

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